MANGONUI FINANCES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22402, 24 April 1936, Page 20

MANGONUI FINANCES

UNPAID RATES BURDEN REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT [by telegraph OWN* correspondent] KAITAIA, Thursday Reporting on the finances at a meeting of the Mangonui County Council yesterday, tho treasurer, Mr. C. McKinnon, said the total receipts were £37,839 and payments £37,023, leaving a credit balance of £Bl6. The rates collected totalled £6935, as against £6690 last year. The payment of arrears of rates was £4460, being £2OOO less than the previous year. Current rates on native land amounted to £2250, none of which was paid. The sum of £2114 was received from the Public Works Department for road grants, which were subsidised by the council to the extent of £1157. Tho council expended on flood damage restoration works £489. The subsidy at £3 for £1 on this amount has yet to be received. Expenditure under scheme No. 5 totalled £9208, and the hospital levy totalled £2468. The whole of the council's loans were converted, the public debt of tho countv being reduced from £83,211 to £68,350. The following resolutions were passed:—That application be made to the Government for a special grant for loss of revenue by the non-payment of rates by Crown tenants That this council is of opinion that the time has arrived when the maintenance of hospitals should be borne by the State and would recommend the Government to have the wages tax increased so as to provide the funds at present found by local bodies. That the Government be urged to take over the full control and maintenance of the main highways, thus giving local bodies a reasonable chance of maintaining the by-roads.